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TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD - TCS - Q3 FY 21 - RESULTS ANALYSIS - DT 09.01.2021

 

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Q3 FY 21 RESULTS ANALYSIS

09.01.2021

 

Strong Demand Drives TCS Q3 Growth Momentum -

Highlights of Q3 FY 21

• Revenue at Rs.42,015 crore, +4.7% QoQ, +5.4% YoY

• Constant Currency revenue growth: +4.1% QoQ, +0.4% YoY

• Net Income at Rs.8,701 crore, +3.2% QoQ, +7.3% YoY

• Operating Margin at 26.6%; Net Margin at 20.7%

• Strong Cash Conversion: Net Cash from Operations at ,11,952 Crore : 137.4% of Net Profit

• Consolidated headcount: 469,261 I Net addition: 15,721 : Women in  the workforce: 36.4%

• 366K+ employees trained in new technologies; 444K+ on Agile methods

• IT Services attrition rate dips to a new all-time low, at 7.6% LTM

• Interim Dividend per share: ~6.00 I Record date 16/01/2021 I Payment date 03/02/2021

IFRS Financial Statements

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

For the three-month periods ended December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2020

(In millions of Rs. except per share data)

                                  Q3 FY 20       Q3 FY 21

Revenue                     398,540        420,150 

Cost of revenue           233,690     245,270

Gross margin              164,850        174,880

SG & A expenses         65,110          63,140

Operating income       99,740          111,840

Other income (expense), net 5,950        5,080

Income before income taxes 105,690     116,920

Income taxes              24,260          29,650

Income after income taxes 81,430   87,270

Non-controlling interests 250           260

Net income                 81,180          87,010

Earnings per share in Rs.21.63        23.19 

 

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

(In millions of Rs.)

                           31,March, 2020::  31st,Dec,2020

Assets

Property and equipment     119,380     119,810

Right-of-use Assets            79,940          76,980

Intangible assets and Goodwill 41,330    43,990

Accounts Receivable          306,060        299,670

Unbilled Revenues             105,440        93,920

Investments                      263,560        503,440

Cash and Cash equivalents 86,460          72,160

Other current assets          148,950        154,940

Other non-current assets   79,010          77,060

Total Assets                       1,230,130     1,441,970

Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity

Shareholders' Funds          862,400        821,390

Other current liabilities      270,600        527,200

Other non-current liabilities 90,900        86,670

Non-controlling interests           6,230     6,710

Total Liabilities                  1,230,130     1,441,970

 

Ind AS Financial Statements

Consolidated Statement of Profit and Loss

                                  Q3 FY 20     Q3 FY 21

(In Rs crore, except per share data)

Revenue                     39,854          42,015

Expenditure

a) Employee Costs      21,622          23,431

b) Cost of equipment and software licences 460   396

c) Other Operating expenses    6,901     5,980

d) Depreciation                         897        1,024

Total Expenditure                   29,880      30,831

Profit Before Taxes & Other Income 9,974  11,184

Other income (expense), net      595       508

Profit Before Taxes                10,569   11,692

Provision For Taxes                 2,426     2,965

Profit After Taxes & Before Non-controlling interest                                         8,143            8,727

Non-controlling interests           25               26

Net Profit                             8,118            8,701

Earnings per share in Rs.       21.63            23.19

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet

As at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2020

(In crores of Rs')

                     As at March 31, 2020         DEC,31,2020

ASSETS

Property, plant and equipment 12,130  12,293

Right-of-use assets                   7,994     7,698

Investments                             26,356   50,344

Deferred tax assets (net)          2,828     3,332

Goodwill (on consolidation)       1,710     1,850

Cash and Bank Balance             9,666     11,075

Current Assets, Loans & Advances 54,431      50,444

Non-current assets, Loans and advances 5,784 5,040

Total Assets                                     120,899 1,42,076

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

Shareholders' Funds                        84,126   80,018

Non-controlling interests                        623 671

Deferred Tax Liabilities (net)                  779        695

Current Liabilities and Provisions     27,060   52,270

Non-current liabilities and provisions 8,311   7,972

Total Liabilities                                120,899 1,42.076

Q3 Segment Highlights**

Industries:

All verticals showed good sequential growth, led by Manufacturing (+7.1%), BFSI (+2%), Life Sciences and Healthcare (+5.2%), Communications & Media (+5.5%) and Retail and CPG (+3.1%).

On a year on year, constant currency basis, Life Sciences and Healthcare continued to grow in double digits at 18.2%. BFSI (+2.4%) and Technology & Services (+2.4%) also moved into positive territory.

Markets:

Sequential growth was led by North America (+3.3%), India (+18.1%), UK (+4.5%), and Continental Europe (+2.5%). Other markets grew as well, with and Asia Pacific growing +2.6%, MEA +6.7%, and Latin America +3.1%.

Services:

Continue to see a strong rebound in growth and transformation services as customers seek to operationalize new models. Growth in the quarter was led by Cloud Services, Analytics & Insights, Cognitive Business Operations, loT and Quality Engineering & Transformation Platform Services.

Consulting & Services Integration: Continued robustness in demand, led by digital and cloud strategy, enterprise agility, mergers and acquisitions, and supply chain and finance transformation.

Cognitive Business Operations: Experiencing strong growth due to acceleration of digital adoption and hyper-automation across enterprises to enhance agility, customer experience, agility and deliver superior business outcomes. Growth in Q3 was led by datacenter services, service desk and end-user computing, supply chain operations, and automation services.

Digital Transformation Services: There was strong demand for hyperscaler cloud services. key areas included mainframe and legacy modernizations,  data modernization on cloud (MDM, data lakes), augmented analytics for in-context insights, risk regulatory & compliance analytics and use of cloud platforms for collaboration. Cybersecurity continued to be of the highest priority as new work models emerge.

The need to enhance user experience across enterprise functions drove good growth for professional services around Sales force, SAP S/4 HANA and BPM. 

Consumer demand for automated and contact-less services led to good growth for TCS Interactive; in design led services, digital marketing and content services. 

Growth in loT (The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet) was led by strong demand for implementing loT-enabled remote monitoring and self-optimizing plant operations. 

New offerings launched in Q3 include TCS CogniX™, an Al-driven suite of prebuilt solutions for accelerating digital transformation of operations, ConvertCore™ for accelerated S/4HANA transformation assessment & migration and an expanded version of Crystallus™, a contextualized preconfigured solution for enterprise transformation, to cover Railways.

The company's people culture, and world-leading HR practices have made it the global industry benchmark in talent retention. 

In Q3, its IT services attrition rate (LTM) was at 7.6%. "While continuing to stay closely focused on employee engagement and morale, we are now gearing up for growth. 

Our sustained investment in organic talent development is now paying rich dividends, helping ·us support our business growth. We are also continuing along our journey to re-imagine and transform the HR value chain, leveraging technology innovatively to digitize processes, virtualize interactions, and enhance responsiveness. 

These initiatives for entry-level hiring, training and onboarding were so successful, we are now rolling out similar models for mid-level hiring and incremental reskilling. 

All this has resulted in a superior employee experience, while materially driving up our throughput," said Mlllnd Lakkad, Chief Human Resources Officer

 

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over so many years. 

TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. 

This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. 

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 469,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 46 countries. 

The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. 

TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index.

Commenting on the Q3 performance, Rajesh Gopinathan Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director TCS said:

"Growing demand for core transformation services and strong revenue conversion from earlier deals have driven a powerful momentum that helped us overcome seasonal headwinds and post one of our best performances in a December quarter. 

We are entering the new year on an optimistic note, our market position stronger than ever before, and our confidence reinforced by the continued strength in our order book and deal pipeline."

He added: "Looking beyond the immediate business growth opportunity, we are tremendously excited by what lies ahead.

Cloud is enabling a new class of boundary-less organizations, that can seamlessly partner and collaborate within larger ecosystems to create innovative purpose-driven offerings to customers. 

This boundary-less value creation, supported by the seamless fabric of technology enabled by cloud together the seamless fabric of talent enabled by our SBWS™, will redefine industry after industry over the longer term. 

Our intimate knowledge of our customers' business contexts, our strong relationships across ecosystems, and our continued investments in research and innovation make us their preferred partner in their growth and transformation journeys."

N Ganapathy Subramaniam Chief Operating Officer  Executive Director TCS said: "Our Q3 growth is a very satisfactory outcome of our ability to leverage the proactive investments made to capture the strong demand and be meaningful to our clients. 

It is a strong endorsement of our resilience, way of working and the relative competitiveness of our products and services. 

We celebrated the accomplishment of our Enterprise Agile by 2020 vision during the quarter, and with SBWS™, we have a well-oiled location-independent execution model that brings in the resources just in time, efficient execution, and machine-led delivery governance that are delighting our customers. All these augur well to progress our 25x25 future of work vision."

He added: "We have had healthy deal closures and the growth has been broad based on a sequential basis, setting ourselves well for the future. 

We also welcome to the TCS fold, the professionals from Pramerica and Postbank Systems, accelerating our growth plans in Ireland, Germany and more broadly in Europe."

V Ramakrishnan Chief Financial Officer TCS said: "Strong growth across all our verticals, and operational benefits from our SBWS model allowed us to post the highest operating margin in the last five years, even after rolling out a salary increase this quarter. 

We also had an all-time high cash conversion in Q3. This and our strong balance sheet position us very strongly to seize the opportunities that the current market offers, and more closely partner our customers in their growth and transformation journeys."

 

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